What Your Favorite Albums Say About You

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It's list time—when critics, bloggers and everyone in between determine the albums of the year (which you won't remember a year from now.). Over the coming weeks, you’ll see tons of Top lists for 2010, including some of our own. Here, we take a look at what your favorite albums say about you or the critic including them in his or her year-end list..

Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: You are a douchebag, an asshole, a scumbag, a jerkoff or someone on staff at Pitchfork. Possibly all of the above.

Superchunk, Majesty Shredding: YOU ARE OLD. You read Dave Eggers while listening to WFMU, and have toddler-aged kids you treat like adults.

Bruce Springsteen, The Promise: You are old, bitter and nostalgic for a time when you weren’t, even if it means getting all wishy-washy for songs that weren’t good enough to make the cut when they were originally recorded. Or you’re a young person who has been browbeaten so often with The Importance of Springsteen that it seemed like a no-brainer.

Eminem, Recovery: You are Eminem.

Janelle Monae, ArchAndroid (Suites I and II): You are confusing Janelle’s amazing live performances with this ho-hum album, which doesn’t hold up in the absence of her shuffling around the stage like a female reincarnation of the late James Brown.

Crystal Castles, self-titled: You’re a sucker for duos from Canada.

Sleigh Bells, Treats: You’re a sucker for duos from New York City.

Hole, Nobody’s Daughter: Trick pick! This person doesn’t exist.

Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: You are a fan of eating hype by the bowlful without actually listening to the album, which is quite terrible.

Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz: The album is a difficult listen. Sufjan is challenging his listeners, and you like to be challenged. And you made it to eight on your list and needed some go-to filler.

The New Pornographers, Together: You are the whitest person on earth.

Surfer Blood, Astro Coast: Remember that one month everyone seemed to be talking about Surfer Blood? You do too, and you’re still living in it.

Justin Bieber, My World 2.0: You can’t be bothered to put down your copy of Twilight to read this.

DeepChord Presents Echospace, Liumin: “A record you’ve never even heard of made my Top 10 list, because I’m better than you."

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs: “I am a risk taker. I don’t follow trends. I buck the system. I upset the apple cart. I am a rugged individualist. I don’t go with the flow. I am my own person. I zig where most zag.” The opposite of all that.

KT Tunstall, Tiger Suit: You felt guilty about the lack of women on your list.

The National, High Violet: It’s their worst album, but still one of the best of the year. Or so says you, the person who doesn’t listen to enough new music.